Hypocracy.
France was involved, France lit up the Pacific with its nukes, blew up one of our boats that was in harbour. Many countries have chemical weapons, many have nukes. But they don't want others to have or use them.
OK, I don't want others to have or use them either.
I don't want anybody to have or use them.

Nothing about the Syrian situation is simple. I see making this about Trump as an incredibly narrow and ethnocentric view. The US has been involved before he was in office by backing rebel factions. A yucky situation all around. I feel badly for the Citizens of Syria.

This video is a year old... but still relevant, and it will help you catch up if you aren't familiar with the history of what is going on over there:

Sounds pretty bonkers to me -Not a well thought out response but I ma quite twisted at the moment spent 2 days crying now a day being apathetic - Nothing makes any sense especially my Theresa May led government.

All sides in this conflict are horrible ass hats... everyone needs several kicks to the balls. Assad is a piece of shit, Trump is a piece of shit and Isis is a piece of shit. There are no “good sides”. None of these agencies care about the innocent Syrian people. Seriously. They all deserve to have their teeth knocked out for the conditions they are perpetuating, and that’s about the nicest thing I have to say about these idiots.

Chemical weapons have been an internationally accepted red line for 90 years, since the Geneva Protocol went into effect in 1928. It's not that massacres with conventional weapons are acceptable, it's that it's harder and takes longer to prove massacre vs combat. Chemical weapons are easy because they're illegal regardless of whether they're used against civilians or combatants. In fact, since 1997, international law has prohibited the manufacture and storage of chemical weapons, so the mere possession of chemical weapons is a violation of international law.

It's just an excuse to do something to look vaguely muscular or maybe even momentarily presidential, to distract from the Mueller investigation AND from the NY state investigation of Cohen which has actually emerged as the larger immediate threat because it is pardon-proof (as they are not federal charges) and may bring to light Cohen's tape recordings of conversations with Trump and others, and/or subject Cohen to enough pardon-proof legal jeapordy that he'll turn on Trump by cooperating with Mueller. Even Trump recognizes this as a bigger threat than Mueller himself.

At this point Trump is grasping at straws. Literally, any excuse to deflect attention from the Meuller investigation.

Where do the chemicals come from? answer : germany , paid for by the c I a and fired by " contractors"

It almost never has anything to do with a response to a wrong committed. This particular event is an attempt to draw attention from the domestic clusterfuck, self-imposed legal nightmare, and upcoming trade crisis that the current administration has created. But it doesn't matter who is guiding our ship. American foreign policy has been a bad joke longer than any of us have been alive. More people need to understand who Smedley Butler was, and what the hell he was talking about, because it is still going on. There are valid reason most of the world thinks we’re a bunch of dicks, and our country suffers because of it.

I'm amused as no One cares to wait for proofs of WHO was behind the chemical attack. "Strong suspicious That regime is behind it" is enough to shoot 130 missiles (165 millions worth?). 103 made it to Syria where 71 was shot down by 30 years old Soviet Sam's lol. 30 hit targets, 3 Syrian civilians wounded... So to hurt one guy in Syria for being suspicious US ready to pay 55 millions? Wow.
I'm afraid next time a woman will be assaulted anywhere in Toronto, police will come after me?. Why?

1. I could do it, as I'm a man lol.
2. I'm straight So I do like woman?.
3. I'm Russian ergo - suspicious lol.
   So just in case - farewell guys lol.

Utterly hypocritical. Who used chemical and biological weapons in Vietnam which people are still suffering from? I don't understand why they feel chenical weapons are different. The slaughter of civilians and destruction of the infrastructure in Yemen, and the targeting of children by Israeli snipers in Gaza seems just as bad to me.

Again it's all about "Wag the dog." Trumpty Dumpty had a bad week. His own lawyer Michael Cohen is under federal and state investigation. May have colluded with Russia. Trump is using our military actions to change the subject.

Everything we, in the west, know about what is going on in Syria and what Assad has/is doing is obtained through the western media. I am not saying that it is not true, but I am a skeptic, I have little trust in the media, no trust at all in this Trumpian government and I tend to believe a lot of it is propaganda. IMHO